U.S. House of Representatives Speaker, Nancy Pelosi has said she would not host U.S. President, Donald Trump to deliver a state of union speech before government reopens, all but rejecting Trump’s intent to deliver the speech on Jan. 29
The speaker said the house of Representatives will not consider a concurrent resolution authorizing the president’s state of the union address in the House chamber until the government has opened.
Pelosi said when she extended the invitation on Jan. 3 for Trump to deliver the speech, “there was no thought that the government would still be shut down” on Jan. 29.
The partial government shutdown, triggered by a partisan impasse over Trump’s demand for funding a border wall, now stretched to the 33rd day.
Pelosi’s letter came in response to Trump’s letter earlier on the day announcing his intent to deliver the speech in front of a joint session of Congress in the chamber of the House on Jan. 29.
